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Mother Jones reports that affidavits, which ‘offer blistering critiques’ of the HOG HIMP program at three Hormel plants, not only discuss food-safety concerns (such as toenails, hair and fecal matter making it past inspection), but also that "the company threatens plant employees with terminations if they see them condemning too many carcasses or carcass parts."

The Nobel Peace Prize Watch has written an open letterto the The Stortinget (the Parliament of Norway), The Nobel Foundation in Stockholm and The Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo to demand that measures be taken to ensure that the Peace Prize serves the will of Alfred Nobel. The letter states:

GAP sent a letter to DHS and DoS to request that the US government curtail its cooperation with Interpol efforts to arrest and extradite whistleblowers who disclose potential tax evasion and are charged as criminals in offshore jurisdictions.

Tom Drake is an American hero. He reported billions of dollars in waste and rampant civil liberties abuses by the NSA on a surveillance program. For his honesty, he was stripped of all official duties at the agency and faced criminal charges under the 1917 Espionage Act. Drake endured ten years of reprisals for blowing the whistle, and sadly, the Pentagon Inspector General’s Office only chose to inquire into five months within those ten years to find there was no evidence of retaliation…

Here is John Kiriakou’s last segment on Chris Hayes. Mr. Kiriakou discusses his time in prison, and the need for reform. Still jaw dropping that those who ordered and perpetrated torture were never prosecuted, but the person who exposed it was.
Former CIA officer reflects on prisonMSNBC

John Kiriakou sat down with Chris Hayes to discuss the culture of the CIA, the torture program itself, and the unbelievable fact that John is the only person who has served time in relation to the torture program, despite exposing the program and never torturing anyone.
The only official to go to prison in connection with CIA tortureMSNBC